Australian Guitar

BELLE HAVEN

You, Me And Everything In Between.

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You needn’t look far past song titles like “Egophobia” and “HighfLIAR” to know what Belle Haven were going for on LP2 – the Melbourne screamo troupe pull no punches on You, Me And Everything In

Between, dragging listeners deep into their rabbithole with a dangerousl­y tasty onslaught of Soundwave-era shred. Borne of a year plagued with death, depression and a shitstorm or two behind the scenes, the record is instantly angrier than anything Belle Haven have dropped in the past: thick and gristly bends build the alluringly messy “Hollywood”, for example, and “Me” is effortless­ly harrowing with its dark twang and polarising yells. But amidst all the sonic gore, Everything’s first half shines with dynamic choruses and giant chantalong cues, frontman David De La Hoz marrying melody with melodrama to a soundtrack of bitter chugs and glassy keys. It’s nothing original, but the blokes in Belle Haven aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel to begin with. MATT DORIA

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